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From: Metzessible
Date: Nov 18, 2017 10:00PM

To expand on what Bevi said (because I do have my copy handy *smile*):

According to 32000-1, lists are considered Block Level Structure Elements
(BLSE) in PDF, so nesting one inside the other would be a bit weird. A
Paragraph is considered a "low-level division of text". If you nest a list
inside a Paragraph, it will probably be flagged as incorrect usage in
something like CommonLook Validator (if you're doing QA with that tool),
but not sure how PAC 2.0 would look at it. For nested lists, you should
place them inside the <LBody> tag, which can also contain the <P> tag, or
other BLSE (per Table 336 in 32000-1).

Hope this helps,
Jon

On Fri, Nov 17, 2017 at 2:28 PM, Chagnon | PubCom < <EMAIL REMOVED> >
wrote:

> No, don't nest list <L> and its sub-tags inside a paragraph <P> tag.
> Provides no benefit to the user, and might also throw off A T.
>
> This is not XML, so don't over-engineer the tags in a PDF.
>
> Sequential tags work fine.
>
> --Bevi Chagnon
>
> PS: Don't have access to my copy of the full PDF / PDF/UA specifications,
> but nesting of <L> might not be allowed. But that's from memory at this
> point.
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> Subject: [WebAIM] PDF structures
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> Is it advisable to organize tags so that they reflect structures like a
> "list inside a paragraph"? I'm reordering tags anyway so it's not a heavy
> lift, but is it actually useful in any way, e.g. to screen reader users?
> Until now I would just order the tags serially, a P then an L then a P, for
> example--but often a list is semantically inside the paragraph, not just
> after one piece of text and before another: something like an "outer"-P
> consisting of P then L then P.
> Thanks,
> A
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